Trump govt admits Mahmoud Khalil was detained without warrant, says he was a flight risk

Trump administration admitted to the court that Mahmoud Khalil was detained without a warrant.

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Khalil’s lawyers claim he was cooperating with the agents

Khalil’s attorneys, however, argue DHS did need a warrant to enter their client’s apartment building. Khalil’s legal team is calling for the case to be dismissed, claiming that he cooperated with authorities throughout the arrest and that no evidence has been presented to prove he was a flight risk.
“We learned for the first time that the DHS agents who arrested Mahmoud lied to him: they wrote in their arrest report that the agents told him that they had an arrest warrant, but DHS has now admitted in their filing that that was a lie and that there was no warrant at all at the time of the arrest,” Marc Van Der Hout, one of Khalil’s attorneys, said in a statement.

Khalil not allowed to see his newborn

Khalil’s wife Noor Abdalla gave birth to their first son in New York while Khalil remains in ICE detention in Louisiana. “I welcomed our son into the world earlier today without Mahmoud by my side. Despite our request for ICE to allow Mahmoud to attend the birth, they denied his temporary release to meet our son. This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Khalil’s wife said in a statement issued on April 21.